Robert Pattinson And Zendaya’s The Drama Accused Of 'Diminishing' A Serious Issue

“It seemed edgy for the sake of being edgy,” one critic told HuffPost.

Warning: This articles contains spoilers for The Drama.

Going to see The Drama, the new flick starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, may initially feel like sitting down to a typical romantic comedy.

The film’s marketing revolves heavily around the idea of a gorgeous wedding, surrounded by loved ones, until the bride-to-be reveals a secret a few days before she and her fiancé are set to get married: When she was 15, she planned to carry out a school shooting.

After another mass shooting happened the same day, though, Zendaya’s character, Emma, ultimately didn’t go through with her plans.

Production company A24 has been coy about the big secret in all of its promotional materials, and viewers are given no forewarning as they settle into their seats about the subject matter that is about to play out onscreen.

The trailer suggests that Emma committed a serious faux pas — but one that might simply reflect a quirk of her personality.

In fact, the only way a moviegoer would know about the big twist is if they had already seen spoilers online, where critics have congregated to question the movie’s whole premise.

Melissa Alexander, whose two kids survived the 2023 Covenant School shooting that left three other children and three adults dead, knew about the plot twist going in.

Still, she walked out of the cinema before The Drama was finished. The film gave her a nightmare later that night.

Alexander saw the movie Friday night with another Covenant mum in a cinema less than a mile away from the Tennessee school, and the pair walked out about two-thirds of the way in, as Charlie is talking to his friends about Emma’s past.

In the scene, Charlie wonders aloud, given that mass shootings are such a prevalent problem in America, whether there may be a bunch of people who think about committing such a crime but never go through with it.

“There’s not just a bunch of normal people walking around thinking about doing something like this,” Alexander told HuffPost. “It’s a specific type of person. And to diminish it down to everyday people just........

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